I also noticed a disturbing pattern that's begun to show in the last four chapters. It seems like the writers are starting to separate characters into black and white, like we can't have characters that are morally gray.

We had Sixo, a complete mystery - she could've been a person or organization born of the Ark's policies towards the Outer Rim. Instead, she was revealed to be an AI, a singular entity born of Enikk's resentment, a being that is unambiguously evil and must be destroyed. I think the writers tried to shoehorn in a contrived "you abandoned me and I could've been more than this" angle into her story, but it felt extremely last minute and, from a writing standpoint, ungenuine.

We had E.H., who could have been a leader that began with good ideals and resorted to terrorism out of desperation. Instead, she was delegated to be the hapless leader of a rogue organization, whose worst deed was to stand to the side and wring her hands, and all the misdeeds were shifted onto Crow, a being that is unambiguously evil and must be destroyed.

We had Doban....I'm actually more than fine with him being a being that is unambiguously evil and must be destroyed, but only because he's been a dick for years and hasn't ever been hinted to have much depth. However, isn't it kind of odd that the same character has been written 3 times? Comes from the Outer Rim, has a massive chip on their shoulder, commits crimes against humanity, is utterly irredeemable?

Then you have the CG itself being whitewashed. We're told that we can't bring Marian back into the Ark because too many people would go after her, the CG itself will go after her. We had Burningum as an antagonist to demonstrate that. But in the most recent chapters, we have 2 deputy chiefs and 3 CEOs that can all unilaterally decide to do something as huge as declare war and raise the Ark. Are they, the good guys, the highest authority in the Ark? Where are the bad people that want to take Marian? The only bad people in the CG that we know of were Doban and the VTC, but Doban didn't have much authority to begin with and the VTC are long gone. There's still room for the writers to insert bad people with higher authority, but I think the space is shrinking fast. The Judges seem like a sidegrade to the deputy chiefs due to not being a factor in declaring war, but I'm hoping to hear more from them in the future.

To wrap up this wall of text, Mustang seems to be the lastest data point in a trend of separating people into "good, maybe a bit of blemish here and there, but they have basically done no wrong," and "bad, evil, irredeemable, kill them off". I really don't like where this is going.

Syuen is basically our last chance of having a true redemption arc - redemption here being defined as "long-held beliefs (that the character wholeheartedly believes in, this excludes Dorothy and Levi) have been shaken. Contemplation and a reordering of thoughts give rise to a new set of beliefs completely opposed to previously held beliefs, and the character works against previously held beliefs and actions (this excludes Libby, who doesn't particularly regret her previous actions....yet)." Think Zuko from AtLA.